John Steinbeck was one of Americas best writers when it came to writing about people migrating and looking for the American dream during the depression. John Steinbeck was bor in Salinas, California. This place where he was born would later become some of the settings in his stories like "Of Mice and Men". During his younger years he attended a local High School, he then studied literature at Stanford University. He got out of college …showed first 75 words of 1348 total…

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